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those called by Lieut Whipple, Cah-wal-coes, and still beyond these are the great Ute or Utah nation.  The Cah-wee-os, of Lt Whipple are termed Co-hu-il-las, by Lieut Mowry, according to whom they extend to the San Bernardino mountains.

Jedediah S. Smith, the fur trader, who visited this country in 1824, calls the Mohaves by the Spanish appellation of Amuchabas.  Ten men of his party were killed by that tribe, while crossing the Colorado below the mouth of the Virgin, or, as he calls it, "Adams," river. 

The account given by the Yumas [[strikethrough]] themselves [[/strikethrough]] of their tribal relations is that the Maricopas, Cocopas, and themselves were originally one people; that they quarreled, and the Maricopas were driven over to the Gila, where they now live with the Pimos, while the Cocopas took the lower valley of the Colorado and the Cuchauos that part above them.  Col Emory states that Mr Carson, in 1825, met the Coco "Maricopas" at the mouth of the Gila, and that subsequently they were found by Dr. Anderson about half way between that place the their present village, and Mr Bartlett puts the emigration about thirty years previous to his visit in 1852.  But according to Father Sedelmayer (cited by Mr. Gallatin in the article above quoted) the Pimos and Coco Maricopas were living together in 1744, '45.  While the Yumas, occupying their present country, were even then at war with them.  The discrepancy between the two accounts undoubtedly arose from confounding the Maricopas people and Cocopas, Lieut Mowry mentions